On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 13:53:23 -0700, edhuntress2 wrote:

On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 4:30:47 PM UTC-4, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 12:36:38 -0700, edhuntress2 wrote:

On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 3:01:17 PM UTC-4, Ignoramus14657 wrote:
On 2017-04-09, Gunner Asch wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6MR...ature=youtu.be

fascinating!


It is fascinating, but I wonder, why would they need to cut trees
that are so young.

i

Notice that they're thinning that stand, cutting the pulpwood (6" -
9"
diameter) and leaving some larger pieces for timber (or
"chip-n-saw").
That rig is for high-efficiency cutting of pulpwood, which is a
low-margin product and has to be harvested efficiently to make a
buck.

How low of a margin? I know that there are places where they're
growing trees specifically for pulp -- they let the stand get up to
about 6" diameter, mow it down, then repeat.

I know it's done in Oregon, and IIRC in places in the Southeast.

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There are pulpwood "farms" in the Southeast and in New England, where
they clear-cut pulpwood. And then there are a lot of conventional
logging operations, where they keep thinning out the pulpwood and let
the lumber trees grow.

I don't know enough about the business in general to tell you where, or
just how much they can make from pulpwood. My exposure to it was from a
couple of companies who make the machinery. I had to do some background
research and that's all I learned about it.

I do know that the pulpwood patches I've seen were on dead-flat patches
amidst hay fields -- so, presumably, it's land that can't be more
profitably put to raising lettuce or radishes or onions or whatever makes
more $$ than hay.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

I'm looking for work -- see my website!